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...
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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.
I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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...
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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.
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.
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.