A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

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

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.