A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.