Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.