The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.