Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

The glory of the elderly is long life with grey hair.

Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it.

I cannot read my own words, Lest I shed a tear, For all the aching memories, That I hold so very dear.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.