“Into each life some rain must fall.”

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.