The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

Dare to Differ

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.