The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

The good old days were never that good believe me. The good new days are today and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

'Sugarland Express' was pretty amazing.

The forests have taught man liberty.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.