The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.