In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.