Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.