One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.