The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?