Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence, beginning with one's own.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.