Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.