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Laurence J Peter: Originality is the...

Laurence J Peter: Originality is the...

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball...

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Life affords no...

Life affords no...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another,...

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If you can...

If you can...

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to...

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He has left...

He has left...

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

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When I was...

When I was...

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I...

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Happiness is a...

Happiness is a...

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Source: In

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We need quiet...

We need quiet...

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an...

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Seeds of faith...

Seeds of faith...

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their...

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A classic is...

A classic is...

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances...

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London clubs remain...

London clubs remain...

London clubs remain insistent on keeping people out, long after they have stopped wanting to come...

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Once you touch...

Once you touch...

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to...

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The trouble with...

The trouble with...

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more...

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Not content to...

Not content to...

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his...

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When I work...

When I work...

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting...

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No fine work...

No fine work...

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

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A woodland in...

A woodland in...

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire; but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the...

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The duty I...

The duty I...

The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and...

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The aim of...

The aim of...

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Source: In...

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I have made...

I have made...

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

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