Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

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

If this was love, love had been overrated.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.