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"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it."
"There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness."
"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents."
"A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing."
"There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out."
"The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination."
"There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule."
"Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it."
"Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time."
"Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God."
"There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come."
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
"The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is."
"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow."
"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
"Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die."
"An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty."
"Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it."
"There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour."
"He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts."