I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.