A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.