Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.