It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.