...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.

Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.