"His modesty amounts to deformity."

"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life."

"He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up."

"It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die."

"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."

"The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature."

"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."

"It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life."

"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty."