I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

To young people the future is still long.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.