It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.