Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.
When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.
The bone won't come to the dog. It's the dog that goes to the bone.
Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.
Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.
It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.