The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.