Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.