The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

- Marjorie Benton Cooke

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

- Marjorie Benton Cooke

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

- Marjorie Benton Cooke

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

- Marjorie Benton Cooke

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

- Marjorie Benton Cooke

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

- Marjorie Benton Cooke

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

- Marjorie Benton Cooke