The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

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

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.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.