It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

The very shadows seem to listen.

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.

It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

To dwell means to belong to a given place.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.