The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

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

His modesty amounts to deformity.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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.

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