New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The world was hers for the reading.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

Since we hate the same people, we should be friends.

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Formal art is essentially rational.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.