If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.