Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

the best of all good friends is pride.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

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.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.