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

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

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.

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.