The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.