Good and evil keep very exact accounts… and the face of every man is their ledger. — James Branch Cabell
No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how — James Branch Cabell
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. — James Branch Cabell
Life is very marvelous … and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed. — James Branch Cabell
Yet creeds mean very little, coth answered the dark God, still speaking almost gently. — James Branch Cabell
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. — James Branch Cabell
There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted. — James Branch Cabell
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell