Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

I am an immortal Experiencer. Does that changed my life, no but it changed the way I Experience life.

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

Only Jesus is perfect!" isn't in the Bible.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less.

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.