It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Freedom is from within.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.