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.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

The only object of liberty is life.