The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

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.

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.

She had always been comforted by confectionery

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Metaphor, everything is sort of Metaphor of something else.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

NO is always a YES to something else.

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there

Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.