My books are friends that never fail me.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just be a wreck!

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.