...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.

People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

It is amazing how many people want to live a long life, and yet so few want to grow old.

I was x years old in the year x^2.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Four-word story of failure: Hired, tired, mired, fired.

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Go ahead, just tear my heart right out of my chest.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.