Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.