Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Fashions are induced epidemics.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.