In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

No one can be the total cure for another person.

Only the past is real.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.