Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

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

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.