The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures--a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subject.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.