For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.