It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.