A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.