If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.