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.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

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

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.