“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ”

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age”

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way”

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better ”