Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.