People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.