Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.