A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

It is a joy to be choked with thought.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.