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When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
Man is a social animal.
Kindness affects more than severity.
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
Where there is love there is life.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
Act, and God will act.
He who demands little gets it.
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity—love. And the story of a love is not important—what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
One need not hope in order to undertake; nor succeed in order to persevere.


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