Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.