Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.