It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

His modesty amounts to deformity.