Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.