It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

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