It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.