there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

The seasons run with swift feet.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here. ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.