If Pain Could Have Cured

Beware Of Long Arguments And Long Beards.

To Condemn Spontaneous And Delightful Occupations Because They Are Useless For Self-preservation Shows An Uncritical Prizing Of Life Irrespective Of Its Content.

Knowledge Of What Is Possible Is The Beginning Of Happiness.

It Is Always Pleasant To Be Urged To Do Something On The Ground That One Can Do It Well.

My Remembrance Of The Past Is A Novel I Am Constantly Recomposing; And It Would Not Be A Historical Novel, But Sheer Fiction, If The Material Events Which Mark And Ballast My Career Had Not Their Public Dates And Characters Scientifically Discoverable.