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

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

the best of all good friends is pride.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.