I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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.