No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.