Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

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

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.