Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Freedom is from within.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Common sense is not so common.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.