Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

You made your bed, now lie in it.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.