Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

The happy ending is our national belief.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.