Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

No escape--like life itself.

On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.

The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.

The forecast iswe kiss goodbye and never helloall kisses are then parting kisses

I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.