Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.