A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Now I know not anything that will contribute more to the furtherance of this good work than the bringing of family religion more into practice and reputation. Here the reformation must begin.

The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.