His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

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.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.