The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends