I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.