if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.