One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.

What worries me the most is that I don't know when my patience will run out, when I'll finally do something really stupid. Wait and see.

What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.