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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Can life be made undignified by any act of man?

The unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

Not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first
because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

The ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

It is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

It is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

A woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

To everything there is an end - except fear.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

With courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone ...

One pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ...

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

There is no thermometer for wants!

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

Hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

Truth is its own defense.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it
and a greater fool if you count upon it.

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

To be in the right is often an expensive business.