You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.