Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Reading brings us unknown friends

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

Rat is a lot like duck, except with a wonderfully nutty flavor.

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.