High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.