A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell—joy consists in forgetting life.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

One can bear grief, but it takes two to be glad.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Freedom is the supreme good—freedom from self-imposed limitation.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.