All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Always be a little unexpected.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.