I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.