Dorothy Dix — American Journalist born on November 18, 1861, died on December 16, 1951

Dorothy Dix, was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer... (wikipedia)

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.