No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Have common sense and stick to the point.