Quotes

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”

“People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”

“Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.”

“Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much.”

“Fools rush in where fools have been before.”

“What’s on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?”

“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”

“The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.”

“I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.”

“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”

“I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.”

“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”