Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight.

I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.