Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
One may quote till one compiles.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
All this is labour which never meets the eye. . . . But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.
Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE
I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.
I wished I could share my own optimism.
Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.