Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero

It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.