A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.