I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.