Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.