It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.