We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

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

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

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.