Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.