Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.