Great friendship is never without anxiety.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

True friendship is never serene.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

You won't reach anywhere... if you lie!

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Use new drugs quickly, while they still work.

If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

Maybe we all change over time.

Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.