What are wits for unless a man uses them?

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

Look at the world through your vision not through the misperceptions of others.

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

Ladies, ladies, ladies, ” Hugh Shaughnessy said as he strode into the room with his son in his arms. “There is plenty of this baby – and his poop – to go around.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

All keyes hang not on one girdle.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.