There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.