I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.