It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.