The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Intimates are predestined.

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.