No being can make another one happy.

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

We must love one another or die