The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

The word good has many meanings.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.