“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains”

“We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death”

“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“They that have lived a single day have lived an age”

“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”