Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.