Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.