A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.

You know, if I don't make it when I go out there in that weather balloon into that thunder storm. I want, you to take your ear and give it to my wife.

Train our children to love God.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.