To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

I wish these flies would piss off.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest