Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.