The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.