America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.