Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.