The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.