Silence is more musical than any song.
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
