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

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

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.

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

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