Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.