Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

One may quote till one compiles.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

A lot of high-profile companies are recognizing the benefits of power napping. . . . It's like kindergarten all over again.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

Probably Darren Criss, yeah, we've become close friends.

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.