True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?