Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

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.