Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.