Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
Success is a great healer.
the only revenge worth having is success.
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.