I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

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

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

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.