Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.