I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.