Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.