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

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

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

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.