Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary
The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.