The past is the only place worth living in
Sex, like art, is essentially anarchistic - both are values worth preserving
Nobody ought to think that he is worth writing about. This is especially true of professional writers. They are not remarkable people, and if they are novelists they are particularly lacking in interest.
There is only one kind of knowledge worth having, and that is knowledge of ultimate reality
If there is to be an English poesy worthy the name then it must be formed of true sounds, the throat all open, and not of mumblings in chambers or the impostures of the eye. It is the ear that is poesy's true organ
I had attempted a worthy act, even if I had botched it
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
Learn to pause--or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.
Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
About the only worthwhile thing you can learn from a bore is how truly golden silence can be.
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
Earth was interesting, and worth the money I paid for it.