Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.