As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.