It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.