A strong foe is better than a weak friend. |
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. |
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. |
Every decision you make is a mistake. |
Every decision you make is a mistake. |
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. |
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. |
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages. |
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. |
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. |
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. |
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another. |
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another. |
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. |
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. |