There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

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's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.