Never? That’s a hard word when it comes to whisky. - Theodore Dreiser

And they were always testifying as to how God or Christ or Divine Grace had rescued them from this or that predicament — never how they had rescued any one else.

It is thus that life at its topmost toss irks and pains. Beyond is ever the unattainable, the lure of the infinite with its infinite ache.
- Oh, life! oh, youth! of, hope! oh, years! Oh pain-winged fancy, beating forth with fears.

Yet because of the ignorance and stupidity of so many of those about him, he was able to consider himself at least fairly learned.