Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

Someone that is not close with their family is an immediate deal breaker for me.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.