The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

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.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.