While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction..

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules..

Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and a….

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battl….

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is..

In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' dec….

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among ot….

And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus two by tw….

A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a chi….

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted..

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day..

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell fo….

I am willing to taste any drink once..

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed..

If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us sco….

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-cre….

American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudi….

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting poin….

I fear You and, yes, I love You: and yet I cannot believe. Why could You not let me believe, where so many believed? Or else, why could You not let m….