Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.