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

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.