A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.