Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.

Charles Dickens

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Karl Von Clausewitz

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Arthur Rimbaud

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Noel Coward

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Sir Walter Scott

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Ray Dalio

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Kahlil Gibran

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

W. H. Auden