Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.