The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.