A book is a suicide postponed.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

We change ideas like neckties.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.