Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Quote by Thornton Wilder

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The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and...

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and...

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware...

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware...

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the...

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the...

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim...

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim...

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than...

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than...

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the...

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the...

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day...

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day...

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the...

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the...

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live...

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and...

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and...

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are...

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are...

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ...

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of...