The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

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

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

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.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

His modesty amounts to deformity.