"For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously."

"In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields."

"Hope deferred maksth the heart sick."

"It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?"

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

"A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him."

"Type faces--like people's faces--have distinctive features indicating aspects of character"