Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.