The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.