Courage is exhilarating.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
An honest man is always a child.
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
When one wanted one’s interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people’s tricks.
It always seems impossible until its done.
Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
