No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.