One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.