"By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts!"

"The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go."

"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others"

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"

"Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together."

"The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious."

"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance."

"Lighter is the wound foreseen."

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."

"Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows."