Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.