In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.
War is sweet to them that know it not.
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.
I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.
The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. And in this work every one who can think may aid first by forming clear ideas himself, and then by endeavoring to arouse the thought of those with whom he comes in contact.