Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.