If you emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us.

It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.

Love is the folly of men and the wit of God.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and confronts everything else.

One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor. To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act.

He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure…

We discovered, after a time, that we couldn’t live on love alone; that bread must be earned, and tempers kneaded, and small economies practiced, if two foolish young things were to keep house with any peace; and so we learned to make the trials into lessons, and the lessons into habits, and the habits into a very decent happiness.

I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.