“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.”

“Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.”

“Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.”

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”

“You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.”

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”