I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!
long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
I don't tally the world, asking, "Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you?" That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.
I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.