Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.