"A man of active and resilient mind..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.”

“Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.”

“The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.”

“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.”

“The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.”

“Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness”

“Decisions are the doorway to change.”

“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”

“Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.”