To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.