Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all.

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

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