-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.