Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.