I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.
. . . nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.
there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.
while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.
True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it. . . They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything.
I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.
The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages.
A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.
If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.
I'm still proud of a lot of my jokes when I started.