I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.