Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.