The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

Every blessing is a challenge to work.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day.

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated.