Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.