This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.