"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."

"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

"One aged man - one man - can't fill a house."

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice."

"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."

"There should be more or less of a jumble in your head or on your note paper after the first time and even after the second. Much that you will think of in connection will come to nothing and be wasted. But some of it ought to go together under one idea. That idea is the thing to write on and write into the title at the head of your paper. One idea and a few subordinate ideas - [the trick is] to have those happen to you as you read and catch them - not let them escape you. The sidelong glance is what you depend on. You look at your author but you keep the tail of your eye on what is happening over and above your author in your own mind and nature."

"The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."

"The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt."

"Lovers, forget your love,And list the love of these,She a window flower,And he a winter breeze."

"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."

"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."

"I could give all to Time except -- exceptWhat I myself have held. But why declareThe things forbidden that while the Customs sleptI have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,And what I would not part with I have kept."

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

"And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold, And freshen in this air of withering sweetness."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?"