Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

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