Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live, ' and that is so cool.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

Don't get me started on critics.

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

How hideous is the semicolon.

Want is the mistress of invention