The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.

I have trust issues.”“I know. I’m on a mission to cure you of that.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

I like old people when they have aged well.

Falling in love was the easy part; planning a wedding - yikes!

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.