The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.
Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.
Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.
The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.
The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.
I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
A child should always say what’s true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.