Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. – Frank Crane
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends. – Frank Crane
Habits are safer than rules; you dont have to watch them. And you dont have to keep them either. They keep you. – Frank Crane
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. – Frank Crane
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy. – Gary Saul Morson, The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel, 2012