The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.