Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.