It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

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.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

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.

All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.