Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-obje ct look.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.