I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.