Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.