Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.