Dignity is an anachronism.
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.