I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper, it's not War and Peace anymore; it's comic-book stuff. Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.