The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.