it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.