Emotions and Feelings

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little—or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

A satirist is a man profoundly revolted by the society in which he lives. His rage takes the form of wit, ridicule, mockery.

A satirist is a man profoundly revolted by the society in which he lives. His rage takes the form of wit, ridicule, mockery.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

The difference between satire and humor is that the satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive— often to release him again for another chance.

and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true .

To a certain extent, a little blindness is necessary when you undertake a risk.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Blind alleys and garden paths leading nowhere are the principal hazards in research.

Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man’s speech with other men’s jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

I pick up favorite quotations, and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.