One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.
All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.