Better to be safe than sorry.

There's luck in odd numbers.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute, & if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

Today, and everyday, I give that which I want to receive.

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.