A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.