There is no thermometer for wants!

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.