Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Cruelty is the only sin.
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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.
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.