The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?