Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

The best revenge is to live well.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me