Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Life is too short to waste.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.