A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.