It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

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 can stroke people with words.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.