Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.

Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top