We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.