The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

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

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.