We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

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

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.