“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.