Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
Action is character.
Forgotten is forgiven.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
