In order to understand the world one has to turn away from it on occasion.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger else it must be pressed small like Chinese feet, her happiness is to be made as cakes are by a fixed recipe.

If you can't sleep then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you not the lack of sleep.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent often unconcious patterns they constantly daily express our character.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say nothing is equal to tobacco, it's the passion of the well-bred and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

In friendship as well as love ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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