The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

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

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

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.