genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

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

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

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.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.