I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

No great thing happens suddenly.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.