Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.