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Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

Virtue isn't 'better' than vice. It's just different.

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place.

He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

Man always gets less than he demands from life.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.