The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.

I 'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Literature is my utopia.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

A good mouth-filling oath. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Every monarch is subject to a mightier one.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.