[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.

The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.

Our greatest resource is the human resource.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.