[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.