The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.