The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.