I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.
You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life; and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another.
