You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
Have common sense and stick to the point.
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.