The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

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

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

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.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.