I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.