There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.
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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
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'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
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I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.
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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
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There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
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A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its parts, and th...
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
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There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
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Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.
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A man's as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks.
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