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.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

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.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

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.