“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”

I should infinitely prefer a book.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Time will explain.

The less said the better.

A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

I can always live by my pen.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Summer left me like an almost lover.

Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

To be human is to embrace change. There are parts of you ready to die and parts of you waiting to be born. You are never broken, lost. You are ever changing. Always becoming.

Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.

Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that.