"Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.”

“How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.”

“Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.”

“Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.”

“A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.”

“A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.”

“A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”

“Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.”

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”