Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.