There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

A woman’s place is in the struggle.

Inflation is repudiation.

a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.