He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.