Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Trapped like a trap in a trap

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.