When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.