You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.