Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.