"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."
"A woman should soften but not weaken a man."
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."