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

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.