Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

Not everyone can be an orphan.