People should be interested in books, not their authors.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.