The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a...
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddeni...
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
If a man has no vices he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues and there's a spectacle.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.