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

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

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.