The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.