Prepare To Live By All Means, But

To Write Is To Make Oneself The Echo Of What Cannot Cease Speaking.

You Can Only Acquire Really Useful General Ideas By First Acquiring Particular Ideas . . . You Cannot Make Bricks Without Straw.

If You've Ever Really Been Poor, You Remain Poor At Heart All Your Life.

Every Scene, Even The Commonest, Is Wonderful, If Only One Can Detach Oneself, Casting Off All Memory Of Use And Custom, And Behold It (as It Were) For The First Time; In Its Right, Authentic Colors; Without Making Comparisons. Cherish And Burnish This Faculty Of Seeing Crudely, Simply, Artlessly, Ignorantly; Of Seeing Like A Baby Or A Lunatic, Who Lives Each Moment By Itself And Tarnishes By The Present No Remembrance Of The Past.

It Is Well, When Judging A Friend, To Remember That He Is Judging You With The Same Godlike And Superior Impartiality.