"The best way to be boring is..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Society therefore is an ancient as the world.”

“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”

“You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.”

“The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.”

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.”

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

“No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.”

“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”

“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”