Hope does not always require probability..

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object..

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments..

Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-….

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, ….

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant….

He who says he never needs help, most does..

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria..

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence..

One does what one is; one becomes what one does..

"Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, n….

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it doe….

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but not….

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins..

..Science is changing. God's Word does not change!.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it..

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind..

An unread book does nobody any good.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist..

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor..