Every old poem is sacred.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
Not even the Devil can call a woman “Slut” if he is not able to make her fall in love.
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails – aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter’s reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
Some people are stuck on who I was that who I am never even had a chance.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Be a rainbow in someone elses cloud.
