It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

A life without concrete product is a meaningless one

My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

The person that angers you most, teaches you best

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.