I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.