In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.
One cannot know everything.
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write, can surely review.
I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.
Thought flies and words go on foot.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.