Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Taste may change but inclination never.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces but an old mouldering house full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Nor be what man should ever be / The friend of Beauty in distress?

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