To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.