"Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It..." - Quote by Sarah Louise Delany

“Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?”

“Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.”

“The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?”

“Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.”

“almost all novels are love stories.”

“Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.”

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.”

“True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.”