The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

I like to discover new things.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

Nothing can be said nowadays which has not already been said

Old things become new when slight modifications are done to them