There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.