We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.