A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.