Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.