If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

If it's attention you want, don't get involved with a man during play-off season.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.