As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
Lost time is never found again.
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me. . . ” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.
A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.