I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.