You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.