The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.