I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.