It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.