There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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