Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.