Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what’s possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.
Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.
At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.
Boys are the cash of war.
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn’t deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.