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

The cliche is dead poetry.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

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

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.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.