A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job.

The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

Forsake it in the morning. Do not ring it the next day.Make no commitment to comfort.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.