It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.