I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.