Style is effectiveness of assertion.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.