It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.