Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.