Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it