There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.