We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.