A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.