A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
To advise is not to compel.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
