I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.