When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

... 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.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

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