Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

Conscience is God present in man.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.