Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.