Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.