From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
I usually keep a bottle of whiskey. I'm not a big drinker, but I feel like it's important to have.
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.
I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.
If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.