Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

... France is the genius among nations.