Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
the only revenge worth having is success.
I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.