These are great days.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.