He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.