I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.