You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world