| The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. |
| If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. |
| Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street. |
| Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. |
| On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. |
| Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. |
| For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. |
| One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. |
| One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. |
| If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. |
| The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. |
| I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. |
| Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. |
| Arrange whatever pieces come your way. |
| These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. |
| If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. |
| It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. |
