Plato was right, but not quite right.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.