We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

My life is build around books.

I can't make sense out of that girl, " he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind, " Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

One thing about a skunk—once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink.

To improve your memory lend people money.

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.