What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

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.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

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.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.