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.

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

History is a bucket of ashes.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

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.

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.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?