My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.