Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

I'm hoping that "South Of Wilshire" will help people to realize that these are places that they should patronize, not avoid.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

I don't want to increase taxes, I just want taxes to be paid honestly.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Films are always different from books.