Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

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