The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.