A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.