If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.