It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it. ... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, be…

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is…

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his o…

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line B…