Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.