There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

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

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.