“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.”

By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Everyone lives by selling something.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence?

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

When you’re a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.