And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.