The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

Never Beg SOMEONE to be in your life, You just have to believe that, You're worth more than you think

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.