Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

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.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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

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

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

Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.