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.

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

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.

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.

There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

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

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