The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.
Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
When you are accustomed to anything, you are estranged from it.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
My best score is 103, but I've only been playing for fifteen years.
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
What you get free costs too much.
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and the temporal.
If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung his bell, What would you buy?
Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.