Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.