Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.