Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.