When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.

Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.

In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.