Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.