The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

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

I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning, not from vanity always, but frequently because it is all he has got; no real sense, no wisdom of his own, merely much good stuff he has learned from other sources. He spreads it like a garment as any other decent person would to hide the thinness of his shanks.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.