Diogenes, Filthily Attired, Paced Across The Splendid

There Is No More Important Rule Of Conduct In The World Than This: Attach Yourself As Much As You Can To People Who Are Abler Than You And Yet Not So Very Different That You Cannot Understand Them.

The Fear Of Death Which Is Imprinted In Men Is At The Same Time A Great Expedient Heaven Employs To Hinder Them From Many Misdeeds: Many Things Are Left Undone For Fear Of Imperiling One's Life Or Health.

There Are People Who Believe Everything Is Sane And Sensible That Is Done With A Solemn Face. ... It Is No Great Art To Say Something Briefly When, Like Tacitus, One Has Something To Say; When One Has Nothing To Say, However, And None The Less Writes A Whole Book And Makes Truth ... Into A Liar - That I Call An Achievement.

Many Intelligent People, When About To Write . . . , Force On Their Minds A Certain Notion About Style, Just As They Screw Up Their Faces When They Sit For Their Portraits.

With A Pen In My Hand I Have Successfully Stormed Bulwarks From Which Others Armed With Sword And Excommunication Have Been Repulsed.