Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read