When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

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

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.