Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.

sometimes it's hard to knowwhat todo.

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.

One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

You can't write nothing that ain't real.

As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.

No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth.

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.