There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!