This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.