I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.