The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.