Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.