The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
Better never begin than never make an end.
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.
Instead of the final judgement, what worries me is the final dream.
One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.