Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.