“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.

Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.

I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn’t take action.

Poetry is an act of peace.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.