When it comes to the matters of religion, people take the sin of insincerity and intellectual incorrectness immediately.
Wine is a grand thing," I said. "it makes you forget all the bad.
“By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, he keeps the enemy without definite".
A single part of physics occupies the lives of many men, and often leaves them dying in uncertainty.
We want to live and we are afraid of the unknown. That’s why we invent fairy tales that all our dreams come true.
I hate writing, I love having written.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
If god exists, I hope he has a good excuse.
My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.
We are the sum total of our choices.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.