Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.

So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.