People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.