Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.