Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.