I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.