I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.