Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.