Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.