I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.