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.

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

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

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.