Quote #18892
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Quote #8810
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
Quote #4453
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once...
Quote #8118
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely...
Quote #20523
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result...
Quote #21231
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Quote #8655
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can...
Quote #15402
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated...
Quote #20024
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Quote #16910
Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...