Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.