"The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class."

“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”

“Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.”

Source : Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.84, Psychology Press

“Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.32, Lulu Press, Inc

“I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act”

“Profits are what you make when not working.”

“Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.”

“Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.”

Source : Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).