The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

Work hard in silence.

You cannot even touch my soul. So I have emerged stronger, Kinder, perceptive, forgiving To embrace you with all the humility.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.