Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.