The time I kill is killing me.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

As for charity it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned and the ultimate consequence to the general good are apt to be at complete war with one another.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood where the people have no dread of anybody have no sense of shame no intelligence or a charitable disposition.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed passage with you?

When a true genius appears you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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