Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.