Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!

It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something...

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

When we focus on or disappointments , we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.