An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

The truth Fear tells is not much better than her lies.

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . .

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.