Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil. " The old wizard released the general and patted him on the shoulder. "Tea and cake first, don't you think?
There is no sinner like a young saint.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom. . . I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would answer, 'Even if true, act as if it were false, for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt five in twenty will be ruined. ' Investors should forsake the search for such tiny needles in huge haystacks.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.