Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!