The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

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.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

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.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.