Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.