Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.