Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first

The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. "You are a fighter." ""Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole army.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!