“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925, Ch. 9Share
“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”— F. Scott FitzgeraldShare
“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.”— F. Scott FitzgeraldShare
“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”— Thomas CarlyleShare
“It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.”— Charles Caleb ColtonShare
“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”— Michel de MontaigneShare
