As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

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

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.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.