If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.