I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

To stand still is to fall behind.