Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.
Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.