I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

My strength is in the Lord.

How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (break of contract).

Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.

I designed a bench in a few moments. But, of course, it took me 25 years to do it.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'