There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.