No man ever quite believes in any other man.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.