A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.