Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.