Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!