Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

- Francine Mathews

When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.

- Francine Mathews

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.

- Francine Mathews

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

- Francine Mathews

I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my…

- Francine Mathews