Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.