I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?