I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.