Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
Frances O'Roark Dowell
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.