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

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

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.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

the only revenge worth having is success.