Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.

Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader.

You can bring changes to your country if you have a victorious mentality

I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

I could only destroy to build.

You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.