E.E.Cummings

It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness

There are men who feel more at their ease when they stand up before another man who threatens their lives with sword or pistol than in the presence of a woman

it would be much better to do it by letter, and not to utter the words that should stab her to the heart