Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

We all must try to be good.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.