The Ingrained Idea That, Because There Is

Truthfulness With Me Is Hardly A Virtue. I Cannot Discriminate Between Truths That And Those That Don't Need To Be Told.

[on Spiritualism:] I Always Knew The Living Talked Rot, But It's Nothing To The Rot The Dead Talk.

The Ingrained Idea That, Because There Is No King And They Despise Titles, The Americans Are A Free People Is Pathetically Untrue. . . . There Is A Perpetual Interference With Personal Liberty Over There That Would Not Be Tolerated In England For A Week.

The First Element Of Greatness Is Fundamental Humbleness (this Should Not Be Confused With Servility); The Second Is Freedom From Self; The Third Is Intrepid Courage, Which, Taken In Its Widest Interpretation, Generally Goes With Truth; And The Fourth-the Power Of Love-although I Have Put It Last, Is The Rarest.

All I Can Say About My Mind Is That, Like A Fire Carefully Laid By A Good Housemaid, It Is One That Any Match Will Light.