But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.