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.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
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.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
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.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, 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 be a...
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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.
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...
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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