No man is useless while he has a friend.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.