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

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

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.