Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.