"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."

"Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire."

"In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans."

"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."

"Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression."

"There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is."

"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."

"Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts."

"Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace."

"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect."

"People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within."