... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

One must desire something to be alive.