Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Life is more Easy with a Little Hope and Big Dreams.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.