Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
The moment you're born you're done for.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.