If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.