If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.