We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.