"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth aches…"

"If you want to be a man, you must be a man. If you want to be a woman, you must be a woman. You can't be both."

"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"Even in the best of marriages, there are two people, and two people are not one."