... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.