It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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.