We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.