I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.