Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Love : so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the real feeling of it!

Your soul is strong to survive the situation.

Visualization engages the mind and encourages the body.

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was suddenly attacked by a multiplication problem or something.

Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor's kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.