Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

Pedestals are always lonely.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.