We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

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

Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.