Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.