Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Life is a great disappointment.

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.