The belly comes before the soul.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.