A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.