I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever$$$ he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

Books do furnish a room.

If I have done anything$$$ even a little$$$ to help small children enjoy honest$$$ simple pleasures$$$ I have done a bit of good.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty$$$ and to someone else if she is plain.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness$$$ one of which is a lack$$$ the other an excess of courage.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.