Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.