Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.