Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.

It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.

The art of making much show with little substance.

One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote ‘Can I kiss you?’ on a Post-It and handed it to her. And it worked!

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

If you don't value your time, neither will others.

Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.