 Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. |
| All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. |
| Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated. |
| Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. |
| For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. |
| A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. |
| It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. |
| One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. |
| What is uttered is finished and done with. |
| People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. |
| Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? |
| Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. |
| Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. |
| A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. |
| I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now. |
| It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. |
| I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. |
| A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. |
| The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. |
| I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. |
