Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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.