We are prisoners of ideas.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
We love and lose in China, we weep on England’s moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we’re the same.
If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
A woman is a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
Standing beneath this immense, bejeweled, star-spangled dome, breathing in its life, boundaries fall away, possibilities open up and my wings unfold. And I thought that you were the one who was the angel.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
