Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.