Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

The great trues are too important to be new.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.