To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue until night till wine inflame them.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.