The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Time: the Ever-flowing pen of God.

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Bosons love to come together; fermions can't stand each other

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner.

I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.