A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Dwight L. Moody

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayso

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

George Eliot

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

To admit then a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have as a matter of course, all the Papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for, can be relative to any purpose under the cognizance of the House of Representatives, except that of an impeachment, which the resolution has not expressed. I repeat, that I have no disposition to withhold any information which the duty of my station will permit, or the public good shall require to be disclosed: and in fact, all the Papers affecting the negotiation with Great Britain were laid before the Senate, when the Treaty itself was communicated for their consideration and advice. The course which the debate has taken, on the resolution of the House, leads to some observations on the mode of making treaties under the Constitution of the United States.

George Washington

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

Curtis Stone

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

Simon Newcomb

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Voltaire

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

Good deeds have echoes.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Seamus Heaney

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

Stephen Richards