An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.