When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven an...
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to conti...
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
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