A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.