In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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...
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
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.
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...
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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.
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...
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.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.