Children are all foreigners.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.
People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
