“One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love”

“People make one happy, not houses.”

“When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.”

“Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love.”

“Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.”

“You'll meet someone else; there are more fish in the sea, as the saying is, than ever came out of it.”

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”