Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

...and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

A community or a country is poor or rich, depending upon who lives on the waterfronts - the poor or the rich!

Every action in the present prepare us for the future.

Though [Jesus’] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.

Some of Paul Scholes' tackles come in so late they arrive yesterday.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Thought tends to collect in pools.