It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.