Pride makes us artificial

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

Every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.