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.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.