The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.
Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners; To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer. Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie; Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.
Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?
I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.
Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.