You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.