Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.