We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!