"For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously."

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."

"For others do I wait... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?"

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?"

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."

"Do not try to solve all life's problems at once -- learn to dread each day as it comes."

"I don't do this for my health, you understand. I do it for the pain. I *LOVE* the pain!"

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."