He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.