“Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”

“To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! ”

“Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which.”

“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”