“Fairy tales are more than true–not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.”

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.