If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.