There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.