Imagination grows by exercise.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers