An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.