I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Look at this beautiful world!

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.