Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less..

The blues is life itself..

Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it..

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life..

It's great to be back on terra cotta.

The devil is compromise..

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

Everything was invented when somebody was alone..

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands..

Really to sin you have to be serious about it..

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes..

I know what I want! And I just go for it..

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors..

You can have it all, but not all at once..

There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved..

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time..

It takes at least one to make a marriage..

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or arti….