Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
The public library is the most dangerous place in town
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
Men marry what they need. I marry you.
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.
If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. . . . And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.