Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.