If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.