... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.