Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.