You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The sky was pure opal now.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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