We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

If you always live with those who are lame you will yourself learn to limp.

The clothes make the man.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

God will be present whether asked or not.

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

When all you have is the memory of a thing, all you can think about is how the thing is gone.

It’s always more than just a story.

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.