So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

Time is on its eternal journey at the same time it is motionless, emotionless and standing still.

Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.

Write as if you are dying.

I’d rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds I’ll never see.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.