This was exhausting. If she was going to make this kind of emotional investment in someone, he should at least be a proper boyfriend. But for a casual fling? She could drive herself crazy.

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

The north! the north! from out the north What founts of light are breaking forth, And streaming up these evening skies, A glorious wonder to our eyes!

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.