Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.