“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”
“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.”
“Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.”
“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”
“Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.”
“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.”