a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

I don't live the single life and never really did.

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.