I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

A burnt child loves the fire.