The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul. . . its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.