There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.