Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?