“Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on duty here; he knows not how or why, and does not need to know; he knows not for what hire, and must not ask. Somehow or other, though he does not know what goodness is, he must try to be good; somehow or other, though he cannot tell what will do it, he must try to give happiness to others.”

“I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”