If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters.Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.