Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.