Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.