"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship."

"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."

"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."

"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."

"Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty."

"The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."

"Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself."

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much"

"I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood."

"The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow."