The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both