The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.