One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Humankind above all is lazy.