No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.
I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.