Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength

For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.