We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Life is a great disappointment.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.