Ah, vampire humor. Thank God it never got old, said no one ever.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Not being happy really is my fear.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Colors are what trick the mind and our imaginations into buying things.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.