on playing chess against a slow playing opponent
The slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is intolerable.
of Jack Kerouac That's not writing, that's typing!
Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.
There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science…