Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.