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

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

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.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

The cliche is dead poetry.