There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one..

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people..

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage..

Love has no place in a lawyer's office..

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up u….

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

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next….

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not a….

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind..

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult..

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth….

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market..

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows..

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but tha….

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish..

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a s….

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own..

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on p….

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with..

How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine ….

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but….