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Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.