The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.