Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.