The average person thinks he isn't.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.