It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

It was not something you could call friendship

When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendships if you learned instead to stay put when storms hit?

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech.

Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.