As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

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

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

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.

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

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.

marriage is a great strain upon love.