I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.