Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor..

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man..

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger..

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of….

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it….

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy..

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect….

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body..

No lady is ever a gentleman..

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by..

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams ..

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood..

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic..

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his bo….

I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears a….

Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays….

Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one must be able to conceal indecenc….

What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I ….

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart..

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of ….