Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it
A good conscience is a continual feast.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man’s use more than his own.
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
In charity there is no excess.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
