Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.
Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy!
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.