It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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.