It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Popularity is for dolls.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.