The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

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.

Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

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

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.