her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

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.