Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane the automobile the computer - says little about his intelligence but speaks volumes about his laziness.

If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.