Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.