It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.