She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.