It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.