I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

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.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

[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.

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.