There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Never mistake motion for action.