Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

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