The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.