Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not — William Hazlitt

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. One has no notion of him [William Cobbett] as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns his readers. . . . He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; “lays waste” a city orator or Mem… Read more → Zeal will do more than knowledge. Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau Originality is the art of concealing your sources. Benjamin Franklin There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. Leslie Halliwell (ed.) Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984); attributed Alfred Hitchcock Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry