People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.