The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced