Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.