She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.