To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.