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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
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Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
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The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
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It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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An honest god's the noblest work of man.
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