It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

Emily Mortimer

Libraries are our friends.

Neil Gaiman

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.

Eliza Cook

A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Frank Harris

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Christian Lacroix

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

William Shakespeare

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Albert Einstein

'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain.

Walter Dwight, The Saving Sense