it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.