The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.