“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”

“You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.”

“i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself”

“I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.”

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.”

“This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”

“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”