 Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. |
| I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. |
| We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. |
| There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. |
| To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. |
| When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. |
| The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. |
| In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. |
| To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. |
| I've a grand memory for forgetting. |
| Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. |
| No man is useless while he has a friend. |
| I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. |
| Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. |
| Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. |
| That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. |
| It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. |
| The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. |
| You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. |
| When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. |
