...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.