Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.