The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.

Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.

Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

I don't worry about losing my looks. It's finding them on someone else that worries me.

Fear is natural. Be with it.